When Shorty met Kodi (from Tons of Cats):
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This was highlighted on NBC News on November 1 (there’s a video you should watch there, too). Meet Rudi Saldia and his female tabby, Mary Jane (“MJ”, now about 15 months old), who bike together through the streets of Philadelphia. MJ’s been riding on Rudi’s shoulder since she was two months old, and they’ve cycled up to 25 miles on a single ride. As you’ll see on the NBC video, MJ doesn’t like anybody but Rudi (she scratches the interviewer).
The film below was taken with a GoPro camera. I know people will worry about MJ falling, and I do, too, but so far it hasn’t happened. (Where’s his helmet?)
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Finally, here’s a video of a kitten, obviously a bit stressed, who somehow got trapped behind a wall in California. As the New York Daily News reports,
Adorable but flea-ridden Valentino — named after the heart-shaped patch of fur on his head — was plucked to safety after the owners of the property cut him out.
Paula Tiberius said she had been hearing the cute kitty’s cries for help for several days, but couldn’t pinpoint where in her Canoga Park house they were coming from.
Then the sound of the meowing suddenly moved to the wall in the front hall.
With time running out for the three-week-old puss, abandoned by its mom, Paula’s husband Richard grabbed a jigsaw blade.
He slowly sawed his way through the wall.
Then, to their astonishment, they found the kitten — which had fallen and become trapped — staring straight back at them.
Shortly after the July 2012 incident, they took the kitten to the nearby Animal Rescue Alliance and Farm Sanctuary so he could be nursed back to health.
Now, more than 16 months on, Tiberius revealed that Valentino – who has now been renamed Atticus – has been adopted and is thriving with his new family.
h/t: Su and others whose names I didn’t save (sorry!)
Really enjoyed the Shorty and Kodi video – funny and sweet.
I swear I don’t understand how US houses are thrown together. [First thing in my Dallas apartment was to seal around the piping with silicon rubber. That got rid of the cockroaches nicely, without having to run the health risk of spraying insecticide yearly. But why builders didn’t do so from the start…]
So did the kitten fell into the main stove/ventilation space?
It depends on who’s building it and why. For a real-estate developer mass-producing houses on spec using borrowed money, the economics favor quick completion over meticulous finish work.
On the other hand, a landowner hiring a contractor to build a custom home can have whatever level of finish they’re willing to pay for.
But most houses built in the US these days are of the mass-produced variety.
Many years ago, I had a cat that would ride on my shoulders while I biked. I didn’t go very far with him though, maybe 10-15 minutes. IIRC, he never fell off and rarely used his claws to hang on.
Thanks for the cat introducing video. Our local rescue organization is going to post a link to it on their website. It follows standard proceedure but tells the story in a very compelling way. Thanks again.
So adorable, amusing, and uplifting…in that order. What a day-brightener.